I have been studying Hebrew for many years and I have to admit that this is one of the worst books I have ever purchased on the subject. No Jewish scholar would ever use it and I would be surprised if a Christian Seminary would ever use it. The only reason I got it was for a hebrew class I was taking online. If you want to learn hebrew and learn it right don't buy this or any other book by Seow!
A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew:
Yery good for new students, as well as one how wants to review. You can get iVocab Cd for the Vocabs and also a review handbook answers for the exercises
Hebrew:
With a good understanding of English grammer, I am reading and understanding Hebrew.
This book is a well organized learning tool.
warning: no Hebrew-English glossary in revised edition:
While no one grammar is perfect, this one is fatally flawed by not having a Hebrew to English glossary. Had I known this, I would have purchased the first edition instead, which does have one. I also don't like having to use a separate Hebrew text (plus a dictionary) to do the exercises, which means you cannot use this grammar on the go. The explanations are not clear, and Seow gives you too many vocabulary words and not enough easy excercises to reenforce them.
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